Go for a free test today

Over the past 20 years, voluntary counselling and testing programs (VCT) have helped millions of people learn their HIV status, yet more than 80% of people living with HIV in low and middle-income countries do not know that they are infected.

Efforts are urgently needed to increase the provision of HIV testing through a wider range of effective and safe options. HIV testing is a critical entry point to life-sustaining health care services for people living with HIV and AIDS and service delivery models need to be expanded to testing in antenatal care, sexually transmitted infection clinics, in-patient wards as well as free-standing client-initiated testing centres.

NACA and UNAIDS encourage Nigerians to visit VCT services .WHO encourages countries to create free VCT centres as well as to standardize and expand provider-initiated testing and counselling so that more people learn their HIV status.

However, endorsement of provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling is not an endorsement of coercive or mandatory HIV testing.in Nigeria,NACA which is an acronym for national agency for the control if aids has spread its centres in all the 36 states in Nigeria creating an opportunity for everyone to access free HIV counselling and tests.avail yourself this opportunity to be sure of your status.go for a test today.

How to live positively with the virus

The reality of the HIV and Aids disease is already obvious to people of all nations,tribes and languages.the disease does not respect age,class,qualifications or status.

if you are HIV positive,it is not the end of the world but the beginning of a more fulfilling and productive life.do you know that you can live positively with the virus for many years without any health complications?,it is possible.these are catalysts that prompt longevity and fulfilment for an infected person.
Live a healthy life

• Eat a regular balanced diet
  
• Take your drugs daily as prescribed
  
• Take time out to relax with loved ones
  
• Avoid loneliness
  
• Read motivational books
  
• Believe in yourself
  
• Avoid stress
  
• Spend time with others living with the virus
  
• Abstain from unprotected sex
  
• Embrace God

Surely,with all these that I mentioned above,if adhered to will definitely live a longer,healthier and fun filled life.cheersTo your health.

STD'S-their symptoms

STD (sexually transmitted disease) better known as STI (sexually transmitted infections) caused due to sexual contact. These are infectious disease and are passed from one person to another through sexual contacts, oral sex and anal sex.

This is real threat to our society as teenage boys and girls are getting affected and the number is increasing at an alarming rate. At least this disease grips 80% of the people. 40 million people around the globe are suffering from this disease and half of them are women.It is the matter of great concern for those countries which are having the highest number of population affected.

The main cause is practicing of unsafe and unprotected sex i.e. sex done without using condoms, faulty use of condoms or the oral sex. It is very difficult to trace the early signs of the disease. The symptoms are not seen but the disease may still remain active, but if there is any change in the body or some symptoms like the, foul smell in vagina, unusual discharge from penis or vagina, abnormal bleeding, burning sensation while urination, , itching and swelling in testicals or vagina, mouth sores, warts or some transparent blisters around the vaginal area or testicals or pale skin and eyes, or unexplained tiredness may be due to the diseases like Gonorrhea Hepatitis (viral), Syphilis, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) or Genital Warts.

All these are different types of sexually transmitted disease. But the one which is incurable and fast spreading is HIV positive (aids).Those people involved in sex with multiple partners or more than one partner is more prone to sex related problems or easily susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases. Those with less sexual partner or only one sex partner have low risk of getting affected. The safest way to be away from such disease is to stop engaging in multiple sexes, avoiding sex with multiple partners and using condoms.

The condoms are available both for men and women. Without condoms the risk of transmission manifests many folds. See to it that you use condom before every sexual encounter. The contraceptive pill available can only help you in avoiding conception but never protects from transmitting STD. If you find some of your symptoms are abnormal, immediately consult the doctor. If you are found positive don’t panic, as most of the sexually transmitted diseases can be cured if diagnosed at an early stage.

But it is very essential that you complete the prescribed medication for an STD, don’t leave your treatment in between and the situation can become grave.Surveys have revealed that many people who are infected and are aware of this fact still continue sex in an unsafe manner, neither do they tell the partner or they use condom, which is really wrong. Even one unsafe sexual encounter can transmit the infection. Practice safe sex and save yourself from getting infected from these diseases

What is HIV?

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that infects cells of the human immune system, destroying or impairing their function. In the early stages of infection, the person has no symptoms.

However, as the infection progresses, the immune system becomes weaker, and the person becomes more susceptible to so-called opportunistic infections.The most advanced stage of HIV infection is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It can take 10-15 years for an HIV-infected person to develop AIDS; antiretroviral drugs can slow down the process even further.

HIV is transmitted through unprotected sexual intercourse (anal or vaginal), transfusion of contaminated blood, sharing of contaminated needles, and between a mother and her infant during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding